The Bagsy Blog: Silver Machine

Wednesday, 7 June 2017

To use the technical vernacular, the weather over recent nights has been

Up and Down like the Proverbial Fiddler's Elbow!

Firstly high winds followed by gentle zephyr, then heavy downpours

followed by silence from the farmers previously moaning about the lack of rain,

but most disturbing for us ‘ere Moth'ers has been overnight temperatures

travelling the glass from +17°C to a low of +6°C.

However, there have been a few additions to the Year List.

SYCAMORE

BLOTCHED EMERALD

PEARLY UNDERWING

ELEPHANT HAWK-MOTH

SILVER GROUND CARPET
Later in the day there was a strange sort of clattering coming from the bow section of the

Strange Rover

which was reason to visit the garage at the

Industrial Estate which is part of Bournemouth International Airport.

Luckily nothing more than a stone in one of the front wheels,

which they removed at 'no charge', and it gave opportunity to explore an area

that abuts our own Recording Area.

We chronicled the construction of this 'hanger size' workshop through these pages

but this is the first time we had ever seen the front and the name

ALTITUDE

The opposite view of the tributary

and the hard-standing on the Heath where we often

Stand and Stare!

BIRD'S-FOOT TREFOIL

WHITE BLUEBELLS
Back to Base and a call from the Golf Club

saying that they had found an injured bird.

This
BLACK-HEADED GULL

did have a broken left wing

but looked in too good a condition and very lively to simply kill it!

Instead, it was committed to the
River Stour
with its fortunes not being known.

You get used to aircraft noise being so near to the runway

that you can often identify the aircraft on sound alone, but not this

ROYAL NAVY HAWK JET

which had done a 'dummy run' and alerted us to its presence, the sound being alien.

SMALL TREE MALLOW

Our first

SMALL HEATH BUTTERFLY
of the year and once again the Heath is covered in the

lairs of
FUNNEL SPIDERS